Career Connections at UMD: Meet RQS Postdocs and learn about their career journeys

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Dr. Jacob Lin and Dr. Alexander Schuckert will join us to discuss their career paths that span both academic and industry sectors. Each will give a short presentation about their career journey, followed by a Q&A session for in-person and zoom participants.

Jacob Lin ((BlueQubit -> University of Miami))
Jacob was a postdoctoral researcher at RQS from 2022 to 2025. His research interest is in the intersection of quantum information and many-body physics. He is interested in the topics including quantum many-body chaos, many-body localization, quantum many-body scars and entanglement renormalization. He obtained his PhD from Caltech in 2019 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Perimeter Institute before joining RQS. Jacob now works as a Quantum Research Scientist at BlueQubit until August 2026. He will begin his appointment as an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami after August 2026.

Alexander Schuckert (QuEra -> Ecole Normale Superieure Paris)
Alex was a Theoretical Quantum Optics Postdoctoral Fellow working closely with Zohreh Davoudi, Mohammad Hafezi, Alexey Gorshkov and Michael Gullans at UMD.  He was a RQS Postdoctoral Scholar from 2022 to 2025. He is interested in finding algorithms and protocols for current analogue and digital quantum simulators, in particular those probing questions around quantum many-body physics and non-equilibrium dynamics. He has experience working with silicon donor, ion trap and cold atom platforms, however he maintains a deep experimental curiosity about all platforms. He considers the possibility of implementing his proposals in current devices a priority, which he pushes in particular in his part-time employment at Quantinuum. Alex obtained his PhD from the Technical University of Munich under the supervision of Michael Knap with a fellowship from the Max Planck Institute for quantum optics. Alex now works at QuEra as a Senior Quantum Scientist. He will start a faculty position at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris in September 2026.

Food will be provided at UMD.